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27.11.14

Letter to pollies - "act with decency and integrity... 27 November 2014

Dear Mr. Shorten, ALP, Coalition, cross bench senators

I am writing to you to express my concern, distress and disgust over the
increasingly draconian measures adopted by the Coalition Government since
taking Office last year, in particular the Migration and Maritime Powers
Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014, and to
urge you to act to ensure that this Bill
is not passed.

Australian forces have spent much of this century in countries defending
the rights and lives of citizens against brutal regimes, while at the same time
our leaders “advise” those successful in fleeing these regimes to modify their
behaviour to allow their “safe” return to homelands. The incongruence of
Government policy makes passage of this Amendment bewildering and completely unjustifiable.

The annals will
remember this government as one devoid of compassion and humanity, who actively
contributed to the prolonged physical and mental torture and deaths of some of
the World’s most vulnerable people

You have the
power to act with decency and integrity to turn this situation around- I urge
you to exercise that power.